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Subject: Re: Strange DOS behavior
Message-ID: <249@nonvon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 03:32:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 03:32:08 1987
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in article <1293@ur-tut.UUCP>, akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker) says:
> I just tried the following on my PC running DOS 3.2.
> Inserted a floppy in drive A, which had a write protect tab
> on it. Changed the default drive to A> from C>. Then
> typed     
> 
> A>  TYPE filename.ext | MORE
> and I got an error message  
> Write protect error writing drive A:
> A)bort, R)etry, I)gnore ?
> What's going on ?
> I am only trying to read from the disk. Am I missing something here ?
> 
> -- 
> -----------------------
> Atul Kacker
> UUCP: ...seismo!rochester!ur-tut!akk2

	well... yes.   Our all so famous DOS uses disk space for
temporary storage for pipes.
	If, however you make C: your default when you type in this
command then it will put the pipe files on C:

say 'C> type a:filename.ext | more'